>What if a “10x-human” mind can do some thinking, come up with decisions, and then temporarily fork itself into 10 “human-level” instances, vote 10 times, and t

>What if a “10x-human” mind can do some thinking, come up with decisions, and then temporarily fork itself into 10 “human-level” instances, vote 10 times, and then join back to its more powerful self? I suppose there are multiple ways to handle this situation. Hypothetically, we could say that the fundamental property of citizenship is the ability to vote. If you create 10 copies of yourself who think like you and can vote, them those copies are citizens and the act of joining them would be murder. This could apply even if those copies want to rejoin, because they might have that desire because it was a decision you made prior to forking yourself. Or, we could say that a single vote is the consequence of having a unique perspective, shaped by being raised and living in a particular environment for many years. In other words, the right to vote exists because of the process that created a mind, and not because of the pure existence of that mind. As such, it cannot be cheaply copied, because that process is fundamentally different from the process of growing up. So, if you fork yourself, your copies are now different people who have just now come into being, and thus will acquire voting rights in 18 years (or however long).